Word: closers
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More and more Congressmen maintain that their freedom from party directives makes them better legislators. Says Maine Republican William Cohen: "Today's Congressman keeps in closer touch with his constituents, and that helps generate a more responsive system." Even so, Americans still hold the Congress in low esteem. According to a Harris poll in November, only 15% of the voters expressed much confidence in Congress, a slight increase from the 9% of a year earlier but far below the high...
Byrd graduated at the top of his high school class of 30, but the Depression made college only a dream. It took him one year to find a job as a gas station attendant; then he switched to cutting meat in a shop closer to home for $12.50 a week. Byrd studied a butcher's manual, honing skills he had already picked up tending his family's hogs. He recalls the details: "I shot them, stabbed them, cut their throats, hung them up, cut them open, rolled out the insides, cleaned them...
...played pretty well in keeping the puck down in their end, but we couldn't get it in the net. It was closer than the score indicates," Nelia Worsley, captain of the team, said yesterday. She was pleased with her team's performance since most of the Crimson's competitors have been playing for four years...
...estimates that 65% are married suburbanites, who are presumably interested in sex that does not threaten family stability. "It works," says Levenson. "You wait around until 6 a.m. when we close, and you'll see these people walking to their cars kissing and holding hands. Swinging brings them closer together, and who gets hurt...
Still, Miller concedes, he is no closer than before to learning what quasars are or what gives them their awesome power. Some astronomers now believe that quasars may be a stage in the evolution of galaxies. Others speculate that they may be galaxies with "black holes" -the remnants of giant, collapsed stars -at their centers. Matter from the surrounding galaxy drawn by tremendous gravitational forces into these holes could be compressed and heated enough to produce huge amounts of energy. Perhaps the most bizarre idea is that quasars are "white holes," portals through space and time linking our universe...